Dave Eggers

Discover a stunning new children's tale from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and What Is the What. When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana? What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders? Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway to underground, he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might just emerge as heroes.

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

Discover a stunning new children''s tale from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and What Is the What. When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana? What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders? Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out. When Gran''s friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway to underground, he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might just emerge as heroes.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter''s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy''s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.

From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners'''' role in a nation''''s fragile peace.An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state.Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation''''s war, and what role we have in forging anyone''''s peace.

FictionJosie, 40 ans, dentiste, décide de tout quitter, sa banlieue pavillonnaire étouffante, ses patients procéduriers et son ex-mari lamentablement l¢che. Elle loue un camping-car, prend ses deux j

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Grazie alla sua capacita di avvitare lampadine in modo fotogenico, Will ha ottenuto una somma inaspettata ed e determinato a donarne la gran parte ai bisognosi dei paesi piu poveri. La vita, da quando e morto uno dei suoi due migliori amici, Jack, sembra aver perso di significato. Cosi decide di partire con Hand, l'altro compagno di avventure, per un viaggio di una settimana attorno al mondo alla ricerca di chi, piu degno, ricevera quei soldi. Accompagnati dal ricordo di Jack, scombussolati da una serie di imprevisti climatici e burocratici, Will e Hand si dovranno confrontare con difficolta sempre crescenti, non ultima quella di convincere i bisognosi di Senegal, Marocco, Estonia e Lettonia ad accettare il loro denaro. Tra improbabili avventure sul ghiaccio, banconote seppellite e una mappa del tesoro nascosta nel cerchione di uno pneumatico, collegamenti aerei inesistenti e traveller's cheque incollati a groppe di asini, i due protagonisti scopriranno di avere una visione del mondo alquanto ridotta. E che donare non e mai una scelta lineare. Grazie a una scrittura audace e inventiva, prende vita un racconto al tempo stesso esilarante e commovente sul senso del viaggio, l'elaborazione del lutto e l'importanza di fermarsi sempre a parlare con gli sconosciuti per la strada.

From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha andThe Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace.

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.

What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.

Welcome to yet another design-busting treat from Dave Eggers and his team - and one which gives you the added bonus of three books in one. Firstly, there's Where to Invade Next with all the vital guidelines - the threats, the steps, the targets - on how the US should go about launching its next seven wars. And then there are two small, oblong selections of paperback fiction from the US and abroad, spanning subjects from pigs eaten by Serbians, auto mechanics still reeling from Katrina and Bosnian detergent factories. Read them one at a time, or all at once, but know that this one's got it all - whirlwind visions of the world of today, and hard-eyed essays about which parts of it should be blown up immediately.